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Toolbox Tuesday: Unnecessary Words, Part One: Redundancy
When I finished my first novel, Keeping Secrets, it came in at a whopping 180,000 words. Of course, that was way way way too long. It was...
Toolbox Tuesday: Tags are Not Just for Shopping
Tags. New authors love them. Seasoned authors hate them. And no, I am not speaking of shopping. For those of you who do not know, tags...
A Few of My Favorite Things: Book Review of "Heir of Hope" by Stephenia McGee
Emily Burns is an orphan, so when she receives news she has inherited a Mississippi Plantation by the name of Ironwood she is stunned....
Breaking Promises meets The Empire Strikes Back
I’ve set the final release date for Breaking Promises (which is two weeks earlier than planned) on May 28, 2015. So, I feel this is a...
Snips, Snails, and Puppy Dog Tails
What are little boys made of? Snips, and snails, and puppy dog tails. That’s what little boys are made of. Recently an article came over...
To School or Not to School
I am waiting for the day I get a review that disputes the education level of both David and Annie in my book Keeping Secrets, as well as...
Dodging Cars or Dodging Arrows?
Okay, so my boys are learning to drive. Actually, we’ve been at it a while now. But yesterday, while one of them was driving and I was...
Men in Tricorns - Or Maybe Not?
Everybody knows my head turns when I see a man in a tricorn, which only happens on a book cover or on television. Ben Barnes in a tricorn...
To Sin or Not to Sin in Christian Fiction
I finished Mary Andersen’s A Trusting Heart this past weekend. I very much enjoyed it, and a formal review will be coming on Roses and...
No Room at the Inn, or at least not on Facebook
And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him up in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for...
